Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Thursday, September 1

Joshua Edwards is the director and co-editor of Canarium Books. He's the author of Campeche(Noemi Press 2011) and the translator of María Baranda's Ficticia (Shearsman Books 2010). Currently a lecturer at Stanford University, he'll be a fellow at the Akademie Schloss Solitude next year. Read a segment of his poem, "Position Effect," here.

Robert Fernandez is the author of We Are Pharaoh (Canarium Books 2011) and Pink Reef (forthcoming Canarium 2013). He is the recipient of awards from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and the Gertrude Stein Awards for Innovative Poetry. Read some of his poems (and a conversation with Zach Savich) here.
A.T. Grant lives in Minneapolis. He has a band called New South Bear. You can hear them here: newsouthbear.bandcamp.com>. He wants to play music or read poems in your house (or garage or at your river bank or boxing ring). His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Spork, Sixth Finch, Radioactive Moat, Forklift OH andelsewhere.

Colleen McCarthy lives in the Powderhorn Park neighborhood of Minneapolis and teaches yoga around the Twin Cities. Colleen is the creator of ALCHEMY: yoga for creativity, a beginners-level class that melds rhythmic movement and breathing with creative expression like journaling and making art. For updates on available classes, visit http://alchemyoga.tumblr.com. Read some of her poems here and here.